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The Royal Library of Alexandria, or Ancient Library of Alexandria, in Alexandria, Egypt, was the largest and most significant library of the ancient world.

The Ancient Library of Alexandria According to the earliest source of information, the pseudepigraphic Letter of Aristeas, the library was initially organized by Demetrius of Phaleron, a student of Aristotle, under the reign of Ptolemy I Soter ( ca. 367 BC — ca. 283 BC ).

Ancient literature of Bhutan is preserved in the National Library.

* Ancient Rome resources for students from the Courtenay Middle School Library.

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* Dimitar Y. Dimitrov, " Sinesius of Cyrene and the Christian Neoplatonism: Patterns of Religious and Cultural Symbiosis ," in Mostafa El-Abbadi and Omnia Fathallah ( eds ), What Happened to the Ancient Library of Alexandria?

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The Library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh is perhaps the most compelling discovery in the Ancient Near East.

* Bibliotheca Alexandrina: An Ancient Library Goes Modern ( illustrated article )

Besides the faculties and other teaching institutions, there are several other bodies that serve the university: the University Library, a university archive and administration, numerous museums ( e. g. the Museum for Music Instruments and the Museum of Ancient Egypt ) and the university hospital.

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* The Scottish Covenant, October 1949, held by the Trustees of the National Library of Scotland, published by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland

* The Ancient Library — Bardyllis

The database of Colonial Land Office Patents at the Library of Virginia is the principal source of information as to the identities of those who received grants as Ancient Planters.

One of the great achievements of Eumenes II was the expansion of the Library at Pergamon, one of the great libraries of the Ancient World and the place traditionally associated with the creation of parchment, although it had actually existed for centuries.

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The primary fruits of the Class ’ s labors are its publications, presently consisting of three series: Papers in Philology, Library of Translations from Ancient Literature ( including eight volumes published before the Second World War ), and Old Polish Source Materials.

The Commission is also actively engaged in the PAU series entitled Library of Translations from Ancient Literature, in which there have appeared so far editions of Statius ’ s Thebais, Lucan ’ s Bellum Civile, Lysias ’ s Speeches and Apollonius Dyskolos ’ s Essay on Syntax and Andokides ’ s Speeches.

* Ancient Manuscripts from the Desert Libraries of Timbuktu, Library of Congress — exhibition of manuscripts from the Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library

* Andron, Cosmin ( 2008 ), " Ammonios of Alexandria ", The Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists, eds.

However, early church documents, such as those of the First Council of Nicaea ( 325 ) had always listed the Pope of Rome first among the Ancient Patriarchs ( first four, and later five: Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem — collectively referred to as the Pentarchy ).

* Pope of Alexandria, being the Diocesan Bishop of the Great and Ancient Metropolis of Alexandria, that is in Alexandria and the metropolitan province of Greater Cairo.

Ancient Greek bronze statuette of a veiled and masked dancer, 3rd-2nd century BC, found in Alexandria, Egypt.

The Lighthouse of Alexandria ( in Ancient Greek, ὁ Φάρος της Ἀλεξανδρείας ), was a tower built between 280 and 247 BC on the island of Pharos at Alexandria, Egypt.

* Remains of the Lighthouse of Alexandria ( one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World ) are toppled by a series of earthquakes.

Alexandria, the second largest city of Egypt, was a flourishing city in the Ancient era, but declined during the Middle Ages.

The Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, designed by Sostratus of Cnidus and built during the reign of Ptolemy I Soter served as the city's landmark, and later, lighthouse.

The word " necromancy " is adapted from Late Latin necromantia, itself borrowed from post-Classical Greek νεκρομαντεία ( nekromanteía ), a compound of Ancient Greek νεκρός ( nekrós ), " dead body ", and μαντεία ( manteía ), " prophecy or divination "; this compound form was first used by Origen of Alexandria in the 3rd century CE.

Ibycus () ( floruit: 2nd half of 6th century BC ) was an Ancient Greek lyric poet, a citizen of Rhegium in Magna Graecia, probably active at Samos during the reign of the tyrant Polycrates and numbered by the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria in the canonical list of nine lyric poets.

Ancient Alexandria, a polis of Hellenistic Egypt.

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They were educated in the Hellenistic culture of Alexandria and Roman culture, to a degree in Ancient Egyptian culture and particularly in the traditions of Judaism, in the study of Jewish traditional literature and in Greek philosophy.

In the words of Roberta Reeder, " His poetry is erudite and the themes range from Ancient Greece and Alexandria to modern-day Petersburg.

Category: Ancient Alexandria in art and culture

In Ancient Egypt, the city was known as Tamiat, but it became less important in the Hellenic period after the construction of Alexandria.

One early example is the founding in 1877 of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings in Britain to protect the built heritage, this society continues to be active today.

File: Column drum Ephesus. JPG | Room 22-Column from the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, early 4th century, BC

Greek engineers were the first to use canal locks, by which they regulated the water flow in the Ancient Suez Canal as early as the 3rd century BC.

Calcium ( from Latin, genitive calcis, meaning " lime ") was known as early as the first century when the Ancient Romans prepared lime as calcium oxide.

In Ancient Egyptian architecture as early as 2600 BC the architect Imhotep made use of stone columns whose surface was carved to reflect the organic form of bundled reeds ; in later Egyptian architecture faceted cylinders were also common.

Ancient Arabs also used election to choose their caliph, Uthman and Ali, in the early medieval Rashidun Caliphate ; and to select the Pala king Gopala in early medieval Bengal.

A photograph of the best known Ancient Rome | Roman era amphitheatre taken in the early evening.

An early example of the Golden Rule that reflects the Ancient Egyptian concept of Maat appears in the story of The Eloquent Peasant, which dates to the Middle Kingdom ( c. 2040 – 1650 BCE ): " Now this is the command: Do to the doer to cause that he do thus to you.

As early as 1819, in his famous speech “ On Ancient and Modern Liberty ,” the political philosopher Benjamin Constant, a proponent of constitutional monarchy and representative democracy, criticized Rousseau, or rather his more radical followers ( specifically the Abbé de Mably ), for allegedly believing that " everything should give way to collective will, and that all restrictions on individual rights would be amply compensated by participation in social power .”

Ancient historians describe Nero's early reign as being strongly influenced by his mother Agrippina, his tutor Seneca, and the Praetorian Prefect Burrus, especially in the first year.

A possible early kenning for " gold " ( walha-kurna " Roman / Gallic grain ") is attested in the Ancient Nordic runic inscription on the Tjurkö ( I )- C bracteate.

His work on other religions was interrupted by his sudden death in 1920, which prevented him from following Ancient Judaism with studies of early Christianity and Islam.

In Ancient Judaism, his fourth major work on the sociology of religion, Weber attempted to explain the factors which resulted in the early differences between Oriental and Occidental religiosity.

Ancient Romans such as Pliny ( N. H. 5. 10 ) thought that the river near Timbuktu was part of the Nile River, a belief also held by Ibn Battuta, while early European explorers thought that it flowed west and joined the Senegal River.

The Discourses on the First Ten Books of Titus Livy ( Discorsi ) nominally discuss a classical history of early Ancient Rome.

However, the paleographic analysis of the Ancient Turkic runes, in turn, leads to a conclusion about very early forming date for the Turkic runic alphabet in Southern Siberia and Jeti-Su, not later than the middle of the 1st millennium BC.

Goethe's associate Johann Gottfried Herder wrote an essay titled Extract from a correspondence about Ossian and the Songs of Ancient Peoples ( 1773 ) in the early days of the Sturm und Drang movement.

He concludes that whilst Christianity rejected anything " pagan " it did so only at a superficial level and that early Christianity was " deeply indebted " to Ancient Egypt.

Several works among the best known during this long period could be cited as an example, from Strabo ( Geography ), Eratosthenes ( Geography ) or Dionisio Periegetes ( Periegesis Oiceumene ) in the Ancient Age to the Alexander von Humboldt ( Cosmos ) in the century XIX, in which geography is regarded as a physical and natural science, of course, through the work Summa de Geografía of Martín Fernández de Enciso from the early sixteenth century, which is indicated for the first time the New World.

Inscriptions written by the Philistines have not yet been found or conclusively identified ; however, their early history is known to scholars from inscriptions in other ancient documents, such as Ancient Egyptian texts.

Cinnamon is native to Sri Lanka and has been found in Ancient Egypt as early as 1500 BC, suggesting early trade between Egypt and the island's inhabitants.

Documents have been recovered dating back to as early as Ancient Egypt and Ancient China that discuss the enjoyment and uses of herbal tea.